I just thought I would give everybody a quick heads up on what is going on with all of my hobby projects from my podcasts and blogs to my Android apps, so here it goes!

First, lets talk podcasts.  The Global Geek News is doing great and although we basically were forced to miss two weeks last month we are finally back in our groove and putting out some amazing shows.  Unless something comes up, we record every Monday night and I post the show on Tuesday morning.  If you haven’t given it a listen yet, I highly recommend heading to GlobalGeekNews.com and giving the show a try.  I am always open to constructive feedback so if you have any comments or suggestions, let me hear them!  Speaking of podcasts, I was hoping to have brought back the Geek News Daily podcast but unfortunately my life is too busy at this time but I hope to bring it back in the future.  For those who are wondering what is going on with the Unofficial Mahalo Podcast, I turned ownership of that over my former Global Geek News Co-host, Larry who is doing some great stuff related to Mahalo and should be able to make great use of it.

Now, lets talk Android apps!  As many of you know, a few weeks ago I released my first Android app onto the Market called Master Memo.  It is a great app for taking notes and even taking audio notes when necessary.  I have released several bug fixes to fix some things that didn’t show up until after I released the app and as far as I know, all should be working now although there is a possibility of one crash bug lingering out there which I can’t seem to replicate.  The app is now kind of on the back burner but I am well underway on the next version which will allow you to tag your notes for better organization.  I am also investigating doing video and even picture notes with it but I think those are a little ways off.

I have started a second app today which I don’t yet have a name for but it will be a conversion tool.  What kind of conversion tool?  It will allow you to convert Microsoft and Nintendo points to money and money to points so that you have a better idea of how much you are spending on that song, movie, game or whatever.  I also intend for it to allow you to purchase more points from an online retailer, most likely Amazon since I already have an affiliate account set up with them.  It shouldn’t take me too long to make this so I am expecting it to be in testing within the next week and released shortly there after.  I am always looking for app ideas, so if you have any apps for Android that you would like to see, let me know!

Finally, lets talk blogging!  I am now starting to blog here regularly again which is great.  I hope to post all kinds of random things from videos and pictures to what is going on with me in the future to hopefully get some kind of reader base.  I am also trying to blog as much as I can over at Global Geek News Blog which is where I really put thought into what I write about anything and everything technology related.  If you don’t subscribe to it already, I highly recommend you do so if you are looking for some great opinions and advice on technology!  I also report on technology over at TechVi which you should certainly check out although I fear that if my life doesn’t calm down a bit, that I might not be writing for them for much longer but I hope that isn’t the case.

Anyway, this update is running longer than expected so I will end it here and do another one in the near future!

-pcnerd37

Sorry for not posting other than the live blog lately.  I will get a few posts out this week as things have been a bit crazy and I feel like talking about them.

Anyway, on to the purpose of this post.  I need web developers!   Right now, I’m not sure what kind of skill set I am looking for as Im still in the process of fleshing out my idea.  Hopefully I will have a better idea of what I am looking for in the next few days but I know I will need somebody good with mysql for sure.  I don’t want to say too much about my idea at this point other than that it is targeting mobile developers.

If you are a web developer with some free time or lots of free time from losing your job and interested in working on this project/startup, please email me at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com.  Since nearly all of my developer experience is on the desktop, I could use some guidance when it comes to web development and what would be best for my idea.  If you know any out of work or just plain bored web developers that would be interested in helping, please send them here or just give them my email address.

Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated!

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-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

I figured I would give everybody a heads up that I will be blogging my entire trip next week to San Francisco.  From my adventures in the airports to the Nightwish concert on Friday night, I will be blogging everything!  All of the technology related stuff that I will blog about in relation to the TechCrunch50 will be posted on the Global Geek News Blog.  I will likely be doing some other posts here as well but the main technology posts will take place there.

Also, I am planning on still doing the Geek News Daily podcast every day while I am there or at least as much as possible.  If you haven’t been listening to the show since I restarted it, I highly recommend it.  This of course will depend on internet access more than anything, but I will do my best to have a show every day although I don’t know what time the shows will be up by.

I will also try to resurrect the Global Geek News podcast while on my trip, so keep an eye out for that.

I will be Twittering when new blog posts are up as well as just about everything else that happens, so if you aren’t following me on Twitter, this would be a great time to start!

If you have anything in particular that you want to know about that is presented at the conference or have questions you want me to ask some of those in attendance, you can email me at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com or just post your questions in the comments.

-pcnerd37

As many of you know, I recently purchased the Plantronics .Audio 450′s that I use to record my podcasts when at work.  Unfortunately as nice as they were, they broke into pieces today.  I went to pull them out of my laptop bag to find that the left ear piece had somehow busted into three pieces.  While they weren’t the most comfortable earphones in the world, I never wished this fate upon them.

If anybody has a recommendation for a compact, light weight, good headset w/mic, I would love to hear it!  I am considering getting 450′s again as they fit well in my laptop bag.  Got thoughts?  Put them in the comments!

I also have hopes of recording at least one Global Geek News this week although Im not sure when.  I plan on doing a Mac edition of the show while not exclusively talking Mac will be heavily Apple focused.

I also wrote a blog yesterday on how HD-DVD can lose the war but still succeed the dvd.  Its an interesting read, so check it out at www.globalgeeknews.blogspot.com

Now that the self promotion is out of the way, here is the story of my pants that I promised yesterday.  It started about a week ago when I had some jeans which were shot and had developed a large hole around the left back pocket.  I had planned on throwing them away, but apparently I threw them into the laundry instead.   Sunday morning I grabbed a pair of clean jeans for church and not paying any attention to what pair I grabbed other than the color, I accidentally grabbed the pair of jeans.  Nobody noticed the holes as there were also holes on the other side and in the crotch before I walked out the door.  Before driving on to church, we stopped for breakfast as is Sunday morning tradition.  It was at this time my grandpa noticed the baseball sized hole in the seat of my pants.  Considering I was open for the world to see, I was happy to be wearing underwear.  I certainly couldn’t go to church like this, so after picking up breakfast, I had to go home and change.  I had hoped the story would end there, but it doesn’t.

Apparently my grandpa mentioned to my pastor about my pants and why we were almost late because of them.  Considering I had ripped the crotch out of my pants when bowling with my pastors family a couple years ago, It wasn’t that big of deal.  Then my pastor decided to announce it to the entire church.  He didn’t specify what had happened, just told everybody to ask me about it.  At that point when church was over, I got out as fast as I could before I was bombarded with questions.  Luckily the only person to ask me what happened was my pastor’s wife.    It was a rather embarrassing day.  Hopefully I won’t have people bombard me with questions about it next week.  Just another one of life’s little moments.

-pcnerd37

Speaking of productive activities, the podcasts will pick back up today or tomorrow.  I took last week off after feeling the itch to spend it programming.  Global Geek News should be recorded late this evening while Geek News Daily is ready to go if I have the chance to record today.  Otherwise it will go up tomorrow morning.

I am also refreshed with several new blog ideas, so expect new blog posts on the Global Geek News blog about topics such as why vista will succeed, how hd-dvd can survive and more.   I have yet to do any bargain browsing for this week, but I will also try to post on my Daily Deals blog as the opportunity arises.

Thats all of the update I have.  Depending on how much I have tomorrow, I will share my pants hole story.

Even though I’m spending my time coding, the Global Geek News podcast will be  recorded tonight.  With CES this week, I plan on doing a Geek News Daily podcast from Tuesday to the end of the week.  There could be more than one each day depending on how much important news there is.  I will also be blogging about CES announcements at the Global Geek News Blog.

I will try to start blogging more.  Have a good day!

-pcnerd37

Things got started about 30 minutes late, only to find that my recording solution wasn’t going to work. Audacity was only recording me and not Justine or Lindsay. After fiddling with that, we decided to try Talkshoe. While that work have worked, the audio quality didn’t want to cooperate so we decided to try again on Tuesday in hopes that I had a better solution by that point.

I ended up spending most of the day trying to get both myself and a skype conversation to record. At one point I had skype recording and not me. Thats where I ended up getting stuck. After some research, I found out there is a mic bug in Vista that is the root of my problems. Thanks Microsoft! Eventually after scratching my head for a few hours, a bit of out of the box thinking saved me.

I thought that since I can at least get the skype conversation to record, I can setup a second skype account on my laptop and invite my desktop into the call and have it do nothing but record the conversation and I will use my laptop to talk on. Luckily after a little bit of time, it worked almost perfectly. I still have some tuning to do on the audio so that it doesn’t peak like it is, but that should be easily fixed by adjusting the skype volume.

So now that everything is working, the recording of the Global Geek News podcast will take place at a yet to be determined time on Tuesday. All the stories will likely stay the same, but the recording will take place either Tuesday morning or afternoon. I would do the evening, but I hope to go see Atonement in Denver Tuesday and thats a 2 hour drive each way.

A big thanks to Justine and Lindsay for their patience and willingness to wake up so early this morning only to have things fall apart. Expect all new Global Geek News and Geek News Daily podcasts next week. So make sure to check them out at www.globalgeeknews.com and www.geeknewsdaily.com

-pcnerd37